Liverpool’s teenage ‌winger Rio Ngumoha became the club’s youngest player to score a Premier League ​goal at Anfield on Saturday before Mohamed Salah struck four minutes later ⁠in a 2-0 win over Fulham that boosted its quest for a top-five finish.

The 17-year-old Ngumoha—already the team’s youngest scorer thanks to his goal at Newcastle in August when he was 16—etched ‌his name alongside another record when he made space with a couple of stepovers before curling a rocket into the far corner in the 36th minute.

Salah ‌doubled the lead with a first-time finish to the far corner in the 40th. ‌The ⁠33-year-old, who is leaving Anfield at the end of the season after nine ⁠remarkable years, tapped a hand to his Liverpool shirt crest with a wave to the crowd.

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal. | Photo Credit: AP

Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno had virtually no chance at stopping either goal.

With five Champions League places up for grabs next season, Liverpool ​remained fifth in the table on 52 ‌points, four ahead of sixth-place Chelsea after its first league win since late-February.

It also came on the heels of three successive losses across all competitions, including a demoralising 4-0 rout by Manchester City in the FA Cup, and a 2-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of its Champions League quarterfinals.

Liverpool boss Arne Slot had said his side had been playing in “survival mode” against PSG on Wednesday, but it steadied itself on Saturday as the youth and experience of the two goal scorers at opposite ends of their careers combined to right the ship against Fulham.

Salah now has 108 Premier League goals at Anfield, with only Thierry Henry (114 at Highbury) ‌netting more at a single venue in the competition’s history.

Liverpool full-back Andy Robertson called Ngumoha “unbelievable”.

“(The goal was) a great finish, great performance by him,” Robertson told Sky Sports. “He just keeps learning and listening, he’s such a good kid. He’s got a big future ahead of him, but here and now is pretty good as well.”

Liverpool almost scored a third goal in the second half on Saturday after Jeremie Frimpong worked the ball into the area before ‌sending in an inviting cross for Cody Gakpo, but the forward could not finish.

Fulham narrowly missed a chance in ​the second half when Emile Smith Rowe’s attempt flew just wide of Giorgi Mamardashvili’s post.

Fulham is 11th on 44 points.

“Disappointing result, punished by the first ⁠half,” Fulham boss Marco Silva told the BBC.

“The statistics of the game were balanced in terms ⁠of shots and chances; it was very balanced. We had chances that we didn’t score. We were not ruthless enough.”

Liverpool has no time to rest on its laurels ‌as it hosts PSG on Tuesday in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal.

“It’s a better place than it was two or three days ago or a week ​ago, but it’s also not that after we win everything is good again,” Slot told Sky Sports.

Published on Apr 12, 2026